The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-06-25
Literary Notes.
Peru, Ill.

ton In the Forum for June, Is Andovt
Romanizing9" the coryphous of the Al
dover theologians, Prof Newman Smytl
will make reply in the same Review i'
July, under the stricHing, not to say AZ
gressive, title, as Princeton Humanizing =
The existing social ierment In Europe
and the strained relations between III
great powers, threaten the United State
with u deluge Of Immigrants during til
next two years The food Is already rls
ing, and the question becomes urgent
whether s,und public policy does not de
mand that the introduction Of incongruou
elements be limited Ia the Forum fo
July, Prof II. II. B)yesen will have 1
paper On the social and evils resulting from
unrestricted immigration.
The American .Kdgazine for July is par
ticularly good. Under the title Metlakah
TEL" Il. l.. White tells, with illustrations
the story of the complete civilization OF al
Indian tribe on the Northwest Coast
They were fierce savages, Cannibals, muir
derers and regarded Ms wholly irreclaim.
able They now have thriving town
with good civic government, and they
constitute moral. industrious community
The subject is attracting considerable at
tenton because of new book on the same
subject having large sale. The Rev. 5,
w. Culver, President of Bishop Collage
Marshall, Texis,) gives an interesting nc
count of the Colored schools In the South
west. The difficulties to be overcome in
giving education to the negroes OF the
SUIT are still very great, but fair degree
of success has been attained, and the pro
gress, though not rapid, in very encourag
ing. An illustrated article on Literary
Life In Philadelphia, by Moses L. Handy
editor OF tile U,tiky NeCs of this city,
gives several brief sketches of men and
women famous In the world OF letters,
which il very good reading:'
So Nich0las has strongly patriotic
flavor, appropriate to the Fourth of July.
Even the Brownies became imbued with
the prevalent enthusiasm, and celebrate the
day at night Miss Jessie g. Glasier a
new writer, contributes an amusing sketch
of negro child life, called "A Gunpowder
Plot" which is capitally illustrated by f.
w. Kemble. Miss Lillian Dyneyor Rice
presents "A Fourth of July Record in
bright and clever verse. "Betty's Sunday"
-charmingly illustrated by II. b. Birch
carries us back to the War OF 1872, and
tells of brave little American girls ad
venture with the enemy. The instailment
. Winning a Commission" too,--which its
pictures of cadet life at West Point, falls
in line with these timely attractions of the
number
The July Haper Is an extra fine num-
Der, both In the matter of the illustrations
80 we'll as 10 the text. The opening article
$ descriptive of the modern art of print !
ng, which mas become so much Of an art
hat few Liinters comparatively know II
veil "Cadet Life at West Point" will al o
interest many, particularly as there will
loon be a vacancy In this District. An i'm.
,ortant series of Southern articles Is also
begun under the title of "Here and There
n the South" illustrated, the first part lin
his issue) leading the readers from Wash.
ngton to Montgomery, Ala.
The July Scribner begins the second vol.
Inc of that magazine. The ontitpiece
$ portrait of Napoleon, Illustrating with
'ther portraits the sketch of Napoleon
md his times by Ropes. An interesting
rticle is The Physical Proportions of the
typical Mana chapter on physical
raining, which is making SO much Talk
low a-days. The Thackeray letters are
lso continued, and new serial begun en-.
tiled, "A Girls Life 80 Years Ago" with
Illustrations.